Jacques Baron (1905 - 1986) was a French surrealist poet whose first collection of poems was published in Aventure in 1921. Although he was initially involved with the Dada movement, he became a founding member of the Surrealist movement following his meeting with André Breton in 1921,[1] and contributed to La Révolution surréaliste. For other meanings see Dada (disambiguation DaDa is a Concept album by Alice Cooper, released Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members André Breton (in French ɑ̃dʀe bʀəˈtɔ̃ ( February 19, 1896 &ndash September 28, 1966) was a French Writer, La Révolution surréaliste (The Surrealist Revolution was a publication by Surrealists in Paris In 1927, like many of his contemporaries, Baron joined the Cercle Communiste Démocratique. [2] Although fascinated by dream-like states of the nomadic unconscious and other imaginary worlds of the “marvelous”, a dispute with Breton in 1929 got him expelled from the movement. Baron became associated with Georges Bataille and Documents,[3] in which he published a short essay on "Crustaceans for the Critical Dictionary" (1929, issue 6), an article on the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (1930, issue 1), and a poem dedicated to Picasso "Flames" (1930, issue 3). Georges Bataille (ʒɔʀʒ baˈtaj ( September 10, 1897 &ndash July 8, 1962) was a French Writer. Documents was a late 1920s-era Surrealist journal edited and masterminded by Georges Bataille. He later collaborated on a number of reviews such as Le Voyage en Grèce, La Critique Sociale and Minotaure. Minotaure (1933 to 1939 was a primarily Surrealist -oriented publication founded by Albert Skira in Paris Baron also wrote a novel, Charbon de mer (1935), a mémoire, L’An 1 du Surréalisme (1969), and a collection of poems, L’Allure poétique (1973).
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- Brandon, Ruth. Surreal Lives: The Surrealists, 1917-1945. London: Macmillan, 1999.
- Short, Robert. "The Politics of Surrealism, 1920-1936. " Journal of Contemporary History 1 (1966).
- Spiteri, Raymond. "Envisioning Surrealism in Histoire De L'OEil and la Femme 100 Tetes. " Art Journal 63 (2004).
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